Timeline for Alternatives to the common construction "didn't used to"
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| Feb 3, 2014 at 13:01 | comment | added | Tim Lymington | @Kevin: I don't think it's an idiom, just a tense marker. And I used to not smoke often, but that is not the same as I used not to smoke (at all). | |
| Feb 3, 2014 at 7:49 | comment | added | WS2 | @Kevin But it involves a split infinitive. 'I used not to go there', is definitely the correct English, though I will admit not always to using it myself. | |
| Feb 2, 2014 at 23:40 | comment | added | Kevin | The idiom is "used to," and so "used to not" sounds more natural to me. Perhaps things are different across the pond. | |
| Feb 2, 2014 at 23:11 | comment | added | Tim Lymington | I used not to do this is better than I used to not do it. | |
| Feb 2, 2014 at 22:44 | history | answered | Kevin | CC BY-SA 3.0 |